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The end of the year is fast approaching, which means a lot of Australians are travelling overseas. While we have high levels of vaccination coverage, we can still get exposed to serious diseases while visiting other countries. Before heading overseas these holidays, we are asking Australians to add ...
Recognising the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, Gold Coast Primary Health Network acknowledges the increased use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in clinics. To enhance safety, healthcare workers should utilise fit testing to ensure a secure seal for respirator masks. For relevant legislation, ...
About the Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic Where is the Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic? The Gold Coast Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) will be located at Our Medical Gold Coast, 2 Leo Graham Way, Oxenford. The UCC operates separately from the general practice and will be open from 8a...
From 1 November 2023, there will be new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) bulk-billing items with higher incentive payments. These payments are triple the amount of existing standard bulk-billing incentive payments. Doctors can use these for the following types of consultations: All face-to-face gene...
GPGC held a very successful event with more than twenty members attending a joint education night with Pacific Rheumatology & Novartis in early August, which was led by board member and Treasurer Dr Luke Ward. Our event was tailored using the education style, format and content that GPGC members...
Ageing well in our General Practice waiting rooms – what can we offer? The Intergenerational Report released in 2020 highlighted something many GPs, nurses, managers, and receptionists are very familiar with. People are living longer and there are rapidly increasing numbers ...
The 2023 Q3 PIP QI data report for the Gold Coast region has recently been sent by email to all PIP QI registered practices to assist with your QI activities. This report will allow you to compare your practice PIP QI results to the aggregated data for the region by using Primary Sense data report...
In consultation with our council of clinicians, GCPHN has developed helpful posters for general practitioners to empower their patients with the skills and tools needed to improve their health literacy. In Australia, 60% of people have low health literacy. This contributes to worse health outcomes i...
VACCINATION May 2023 – Minimum dose intervals and multiple doses Trusted healthcare professionals play a pivotal role in converting vaccine hesitant parents to accept vaccination. Up to 90% of parents would trust their GP to influence their decision. Unfortunately, it is becoming common for ch...
As an early adopter of Primary Sense, and in my role as Chair of the Primary Sense National Clinical Advisory Group, I have witnessed Primary Sense’s evolution from a tool used by more than 700 Gold Coast-based GPs, (representing almost 90 per cent of the region’s population), to a scaled-up ver...
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